Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 14:35 Post subject: [SOLVED]Linksys WRT1900AC v1 Help needed for Wireless bridge
I got an used WRT1900AC v1 and trying to set it up as Wireless bridge on 5 GHz band with ISP provided dual band router which is a Nokia G-2425G-A. First try was the stock linksys firmware ver 1.1.10 and its wireless bridge mode will connect to 2.4 GHz band successfully, but when connecting to 5 GHz band it would always say 'unable to connect to upstream router, check your settings'. Suspecting firmware issue I flashed a DD-WRT version from April 2024 (just to be safe rather than going with latest beta) and tried setting up station bridge (routed), but to my surprise here also only 2.4 GHz will work for station bridge. 5 GHz will work as AP in stock Linksys firmware with no issues and internet, and in DD-WRT with station bridge on 2.4 GHz I can create a Virtual AP on 5 GHz to which devices can connect but no internet. Could it mean there is a hardware issue with 5 GHz radio, if so how would the 5 GHz AP mode work in stock firmware?
Attaching the configuration for 5 GHz band on the ISP router, anything that would point to a configuration issue?
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Last edited by rakeshchn on Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:23; edited 1 time in total
Joined: 30 May 2017 Posts: 595 Location: Rural Manitoba
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 17:42 Post subject:
I run Master-Slave on my Routers as WDS without issue but because you are not running Just Linksys I am not sure it is possible WDS has to be alike hardware to run but Basic Master-Slave should work with dissimilar hardware.
I have run my slaves as Client Routed in the past without issue. _________________ Starlink & DSL ->
WRT3200acm Master WDS 5GHz 80Mhz CH 100 (+6)-r61915
Ath1 2.4Ghz Disabled
99 Static Leases
ExpressVPN
WRT3200acm-r61915 WDS-5Ghz Client
WRT3200acm-r61465 Spare
WRT1900Ac V1 5Ghz-r61915 WDS Station
(Defective, no 2.4Ghz but 5Ghz works great)
WRT1900AC V1-r61915 WDS Station
WRT1900AC SPARE r60942
WRT1900AC SPARE r60942
WRT1900AC V1 5Ghz AC 80Mhz WDS-AP-r61915 2.4Ghz AP Ch1 HT20 Mixed
This is solved now! What seems like a silly mistake now was driving me nuts for hours! Especially because the stock Linksys firmware was also failing to connect to 5 GHz band in wireless bridge/repeater bridge mode.
Having worked with DD WRT wireless bridge setup before only with Single band routers like WRT54G, wrt160n etc. I missed to setup the second part (wlan1 for 5 GHz radio) under wireless security tab
